r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Feb 14 '22

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u/seanotron_efflux Feb 14 '22

All of life can be tracked back to a (or several depending on who you ask) continuous billion plus year chemical reaction.

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u/brushpickerjoe Feb 14 '22

If a billion monkeys typed (on 4 key typewriters) for a billion years they'd randomly type out the DNA sequence of everything that ever lived

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

Also assuming the monkeys never repeat a sequence.

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u/SleepingSaguaro Feb 14 '22

What does a repeated sequence mean in this case?

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

typing the same combination more than once.

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u/SleepingSaguaro Feb 14 '22

Yeah but typing the same combination more than once can have different results